Lidia Camacho (Mexico), Daffyd Pritchard (UK), Pio Pelizzari (Switzerland), Ilse Assmann (South Africa), Anke Leenings (Germany), Janet Topp Fargion (UK), Richard Ranft (UK) 2011-2014: Jacqueline von Arb (Norway), Kevin Bradley (Australia), Pio Pelizzari (Switzerland), Alvaro Hegewisch (Mexico), Bruce Gordon (USA), Lynn Johnson (South Africa), Marit Hamre (Norway), Cassandra Gallegos (USA), Bertram Lyons (USA), Richard Ranft (UK) 2014-2017: Ilse Assman (South Africa), Jacqueline von Arb (Norway), Bruce Gordon (USA), Judith Gray (USA), Pio Pelizzari (Switzerland), Lynn Johnson (South Africa), Tommy Sjöberg (Sweden), Bertram Lyons (USA), Richard Ranft (UK) 2017-2020: Toby Seay (USA), Ilse Assman (South Africa), Zane Grosa (Latvia), Judith Gray (USA), Pio Pelizzari (Switzerland), Lynn Johnson (South Africa), Tommy Sjöberg (Sweden), Bertram Lyons (USA), Richard Ranft (UK) Committees and Sections IASA Committees focus on topics that are of common interest to all archives and collections. IASA Sections provide a platform for the exchange of information between specific types of archives and collections. Organising Knowledge Committee The Organising Knowledge Committee concerns itself with standards and rules as well as with systems, automated or manual, for the documentation and cataloguing of audiovisual media. Officers (chairpersons, secretaries) of the Organising Knowledge Committee (previously known as the Cataloguing and Documentation Committee) are elected within the committee. The committees exclusively decide on the objects and tasks they deal with. Chair: Dr Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Vice-chair: Guy Marechal Discography Committee The Discography Committee deals with standards and recommended practices, as well as current and ongoing projects involving published recordings. Officers of the Discography Committee (chairpersons, secretaries) are elected within the committee. The committees exclusively decide on the objects and tasks they deal with. Chair: Peter Laurence, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University Vice-chair: Pedro Félix, Arquivo Nacional do Som (Equipa Instaladora), Alameda da Universidade Secretary: Margarida Ullate i Estanyol, Director of the Sound & Audiovisual Unit, BIBLIOTECA DE CATALUNYA Technical Committee The Technical Committee devotes itself to all technical aspects of sound and audiovisual recordings. This includes the actual recording processes, optimisation of reproduction of historical and modern recordings, transfer and digitisation technologies, standards and storage technologies, software and carriers. The Technical Committee is concerned with the preservation of sound and audiovisual media and technically sustainable approaches to future access. The creation of special publications enabling the AV archive community to take educated decisions regarding this, is a main concern of the committee. The Technical Committee has delivered several papers,